RDA to be released at the end of November 2009

This information about RDA has been released (no information on the RDA demo that was scheduled for release in May 2009):

News from the Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA:

* Finalization of RDA text: The RDA text was handed to the co-publishers on schedule on 22 June. RDA is scheduled to be released at the end of November 2009. [emphasis mine]
* New Chair: Alan Danskin will be the JSC Chair from 1 July 2009.Danskin is the Metadata and Bibliographic Standards Coordinator at the British Library.
* During July, the JSC Secretariat will move to the British Library: jscsecretary@bl.uk
* Web site: The JSC Web site has moved to http://www.rda-jsc.org/. There are redirections in place from the old site to pages on the new site explaining the change.